Results of publishing and unpublishing different items
You can publish, republish and unpublish different types of items in Content Manager. For example, you can publish entire Publication, only a certain Page, only a selected Component, a Bundle of different items and other items. It is important to understand the differing results of each publish or unpublish action.
The table summarizes what happens when you publish or republish different types of items, and conversely, what happens when you unpublish those same items. Because there are important differences between what is published in template-based publishing versus templateless, data-only publishing, separate columns indicated the results for the two publishing pipelines.
| Selected item | Published items (or republished) | Template-based | Data only | Unpublished items | Template-based | Data only |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publication | Pages — if located in publishable Structure Groups | Yes | Yes | Published Pages | Yes | Yes |
| Dynamic Component Presentations | Yes | No | Published Dynamic Component Presentations | Yes | N/A | |
| Components alone — any based on Schemas where publishing is enabled | No | Yes | Published Components | N/A | Yes | |
| Categories and Keywords | Yes | Yes | Published Categories and Keywords | Yes | Yes | |
| Structure Group | Pages — if nested in publishable Structure Groups | Yes | Yes | Published Pages nested in publishable Structure Groups | Yes | Yes |
| Dynamic Component Presentations — any present on included Pages | Yes | No | Published Dynamic Component Presentations present on included Pages | Yes | N/A | |
| Components alone — any present on included Pages that are based on Schemas where publishing is enabled | No | Yes | Published Components | N/A | Yes | |
| Structure Group information — if publish option selected | Yes | Yes | Published Structure Group information — if unpublish option selected | Yes | Yes | |
| Page | Page itself | Yes | Yes | Published Page | Yes | Yes |
| Dynamic Component Presentations — any present on the Page
| Yes | No | Published Dynamic Component Presentations | No | N/A | |
| Components alone — any present on the Page that are based on Schemas where publishing is enabled | No | Yes | Published Components | N/A | No | |
| Page Template | Pages — any that use this Page Template | Yes | Yes | Pages — any published using this Page Template | Yes | Yes |
| Dynamic Component Presentations — any present on Pages using the selected Page Template | Yes | No | Published Dynamic Component Presentations | No | N/A | |
| Components alone — any present on Pages using the selected Page Template, which are also based on Schemas where publishing is enabled | No | Yes | Published Components | N/A | No | |
| Component | Dynamic Component Presentation for selected Component — if Schema is linked to a dynamic Component Template | Yes | No | Published Dynamic Component Presentation where Schema is linked to a dynamic Component Template | No | N/A |
| Component alone — if Schema has publishing enabled | No | Yes | Published Component | N/A | Yes | |
| Dynamic Component Presentations for other Components that link to the selected Component — if user selects the advanced publishing option to also publish these other Components (both linked and linking Components must be associated with Dynamic Component Templates) | Yes | No | Published Dynamic Component Presentations linked to the selected Component | N/A | N/A | |
| Components alone — if above row is true and the Schema has publishing enabled | No | Yes | No option for unpublishing | N/A | N/A | |
| Pages — any that were previously published with the Component as an embedded (static) Component Presentation | Yes | Yes | All published Pages which use the Component are unpublished | Yes | Yes | |
| Component Template | Dynamic Component Presentations — if the Component Template is dynamic | Yes | No | Dynamic Component Presentations — any published with the dynamic Component Template | Yes | N/A |
| Component alone — if Schema is associated with the Dynamic Component Template and has publishing enabled | No | Yes | Published Component | N/A | Yes | |
| Pages — if Component Template is static The entire Page published (or republished) with embedded Component Presentation. | Yes | Yes | Pages — any published with the Component Template as part of a static (embedded) Component Presentation | Yes | Yes | |
| Bundle | Every item in the Bundle — same publish actions that would occur if the items in the Bundle were to be published individually, but with a single publish transaction. | Yes | Yes | Every item in the Bundle — same unpublish actions that would occur if the items in the Bundle were to be unpublished individually, but with a single unpublish transaction. | Yes | Yes |
| Target Group | Context Expression — if Target Group has Context Expression data | Yes | No | Published Context Expression | Yes | N/A |
| Category | All items in the taxonomy to which the Category belongs | Yes | No | All published items in the taxonomy to which the Category belongs | Yes | N/A |